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30 Jul 2024 18:11:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The inner light  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 25 Feb 2011 22:28:37
Message: <4d687365$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/25/2011 9:09 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 26.02.2011 02:09, schrieb Mike Raiford:
>
>> What is the effect of transmit or filter on the pigment, BTW. With the
>> current syntax, it gets a bit weird. It almost appears that there's a
>> bit of transparency along with the translucency on this scene, too (or
>> is that due to radiosity interacting?)
>
> I haven't actually tried transmit & filter out yet; I'd expect it would
> allow you to add transparency to a material.
>
> Where material is very thin, or is highly translucent, there is indeed a
> bit of transparency mixed in by the SSLT code anyway (in the next
> release, that is), to account for the portion of light that isn't
> scattered or absorbed at all, but passes straight through.

Oh, cool :) So that was what I thought it was in "The Inner Light"! Nice.

So many new things to play with, so little time. Lots of new 
pigment/texture patterns to play around with, too. Will the prox pattern 
eventually come back in the future?

I was doing a fair bit of playing with the earlier betas... somewhere in 
the 30's life got in the way. The RC's have really renewed my interest 
again.


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